Marketing Strategy Workshop

Will include former Kodak Chief Marketing Officer Jeffrey Hayzlett, former Vice President of Marketing for Virgin America Porter Gale and Shelly Palmer, host of Shelly Palmer Digital Living and managing director of Advanced Media Ventures.

Manage the Power of Your Credit Report

Martina Beverly of Beverly & Beverly will offer this seminar at the 10th annual Money Smart Week. Part of a series of Financial Literacy Programs in cooperation with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: first Wednesday every other month.

Symposium on Capitalist Peace

Symposium will explore the question, “Can capitalism promote peace?” The event will bring together three top scholars in the field of international economics and its effect on global conflict and the potential for peace.

Annual Employment Law Conference

Discussion panels composed of outside counsel, government officials and in-house counsel will offer advice to businesses on using social media as a screening tool, developing polices for employee use of social media and handling Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations.

Traffic Club of Chicago Executive Series Luncheon

Guest speaker Robbie Anderson, president of United Cargo, will present "The Value of Time and Space -- In the Supply Chain." He is responsible for all aspects of United Cargo's revenue, marketing, operations, product quality and customer service.

Look Who's Talking about Executive Compensation

Symposium will provide the most recent data regarding executive compensation levels and trends, regulatory and legislative activities, and executive pay governance issues. The format will use a combination of panel presentation and participant interaction.

26th Annual Entrepreneurial Woman’s Conference

Offering women business owners real-world solutions to the problems they are facing and the opportunity to increase the profitability of their businesses by building relationships with corporate and government buyers, business experts and other women business owners.

Outsmarting the Health Insurance Crisis

Jeff Rosset of Midwest HR will introduce you to strategies that potentially can help you reduce and control the short- and long-term costs of your health insurance plan, be able to offer Fortune 500-like benefits to your employees -- and more.

Chicago Opening of the Sino-American Research Center for an Aging Population

This research center will help strengthen academic communications on elder law issues and provide support for the evolution of policy and law for the increasing aging populations in the two countries. Speakers from the United States and China will address guests.

Trying to Stay Healthy in a Distasteful Economy: Challenges in the Food and Agribusiness Industries

A panel of experts will discuss the most important issues facing the food and agribusiness industries, including experiences in helping troubled businesses improve efficiency and profitability and how to maintain a healthy growth rate.